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Sporting Life 10K

The organiser has not published a date. Toronto
Yonge Street
© OpenStreetMap Yonge Street. Photograph by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons . Course line © OpenStreetMap contributors

The course

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Downhill home.

StartFinish

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Height drawn many times taller than life. Heights: GEDTM30.

Course elevation profile, 8× vertical exaggeration Elevation along the course from km 0 to km 10. The trace runs between 79 and 166 metres, a range of 87 metres, drawn at 8 times vertical exaggeration so the shape is legible. Smoothed over 1 km before this profile was derived. An unsmoothed urban surface carries the buildings and would assert a climb that is not there.
0 2 4 6 8 10 km
0 2 4 6 mi

  • downhill home
The course in short 2 lines
  • Down Yonge Street to Corktown CommonFrom Yonge and Glengrove down to Corktown Common.
  • Eighty-five metres lower at the finishFrom 166 m near the start to 79 m at the finish.
Course notes 2 short reads on the course
Whole courseGeometryDown Yonge Street to Corktown CommonFrom Yonge and Glengrove down to Corktown Common.

The organiser calls the course nearly all downhill and Canada’s flattest and fastest 10K, certified by Athletics Canada. The 2026 race ran on Sunday 10 May at 7:30.

Sourced

km 0 to 10GradientEighty-five metres lower at the finishFrom 166 m near the start to 79 m at the finish.

The start is at about 165 m, the high point of 166 m comes at 0.8 km, and the course then falls to the finish. The organiser describes the 2026 route as even more downhill than before.

Measured

Race fuel

Energy gel
An energy gel sachet
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No gel needed at this pace

Finish

Under about 75 minutes most runners need no gel: water at the aid stations does it.

For your long training runs:

Our pick: SiS BETA Fuel gel, box of 6, strawberry and lime. 40 g of carbohydrate a gel, about twice a usual gel, from two kinds of sugar your body takes up side by side.

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In Canada the button opens GU Energy Gel, Salted Caramel, 24-pack, the best seller there.

Outside the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the UK and Ireland, Spain and Portugal, Italy, the rest of the EU and Canada the button opens GU Energy Gel, Chocolate Outrage, 24-pack on Amazon.com, the best seller there.

Anti-chafe
Compeed Anti-blister stick
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Compeed

Compeed anti-blister stick, 8 ml

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An invisible layer before the start keeps seams, straps and shoes from rubbing skin raw.

Put it on before you leave for the start: heels and toes, inner thighs, under a bra or heart-rate strap.

Try it on a long run first, like everything you use on race day.

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Number belt
A race number belt
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Compressport Race Belt

Holds your bib without safety pins through your top, with loops for up to 8 gels.

Clip the bib on the night before, so it goes on with your shorts in the morning.

Keep the number on the front, where officials and photographers can see it.

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Electrolytes
A tube of electrolyte tablets
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SiS Hydro electrolyte tablets, tube of 20

One tablet in a bottle puts back some of the salt you sweat out.

One tablet in 500 ml of water in the hour before the start.

Only if you have used them in training: nothing new on race day.

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Blister plasters
Compeed Blister plasters, medium, 6
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Compeed blister plasters, medium, 6

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One in a pocket cushions a blister if one starts.

Put it on clean, dry skin and leave it until it comes off by itself.

Give a couple to whoever comes to cheer, so they are there at the km you need them.

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distance
10.0 km6.2 mi
climb
6.5 m21 ft

The Sporting Life 10K is a flat course of 10 km with 6.5 m of climbing. Its lowest point is 79 m and its highest 166 m above sea level.

Trip

Getting a place

Entry through the organiser

Entry details on the organiser’s site →

The organiser, a third party. We take no entries and have no part in the race.

Sources and licence

Last checked.

Course line matched onto OpenStreetMap road geometry: (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License 1.0 (ODbL). Elevation sampled from GEDTM30, Global Ensemble Digital Terrain Model at 30 m (v1.2): Elevation: GEDTM30 (Ho & Hengl, OpenGeoHub), CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Elevation gain computed by us from that line, smoothed over 1 kmsmoothed over 0.6 mi.

The line is drawn on the roads and measures 0.21% shorter than the certified distance.

Date and entry information from the organiser.

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